Tsukiji Fish Market: Explore Local Culinary Culture and Taste Delectable Foods on a Walking Tour
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Chuo City
Immerse yourself in the vibrant Tsukiji Fish Market on a walking tour. Discover local culinary culture, taste delectable foods, and witness face-to-face conversations between buyers and sellers.
Duration: 3 hours
Cancellation: 1 day learn more
Highlights
  • Tsukiji Hongwanji Temple - Meet your guide in front of the gate of Tsukiji Honganji Temple at 8:15am and start exploring the Tsukiji fish market on this 3-hour food-focused tour.
  • Tsukiji Jogai Market - Soak up the sights, sounds, and smells, and learn about Tsukiji’s 80-year history as the biggest fish market in Japan.

For local people, Tsukiji is a special place to buy the freshest, high-quality seafood and ingredients. This market is also special place for chefs and many chefs of Michelin-star restaurants come to Tsukiji in the morning to buy their ingredients.

While wandering through the colorful market, check out its fresh produce, from tuna to octopus tentacles, and get ready to eat and drink as the locals do. Learn about Japanese culture while sampling various kinds of symbolic Japanese foods along the way, such as Japanese-style omelettes, fried fish cakes, Dashi soup and Katsuobushi (dried bonito), Japanese tea, sake, and sushi.

  • The Tsukiji Market - We will do food tour.
  • Tsukiji Hitachiya - If you need kitchen tool, we stop by in the tour.
  • Tsukiji Uogashi - We also pass by mini wholesale market to see hundreds kinds of freshest fishes!!
  • Tsukiji Fish Market - We wrap up our tour with a delightful serving of delicious fish bowl!
What's Included
  • Snacks
  • Local professional guide
  • Food tasting including Japanese omelette, fried fish cake, fresh tuna
  • Sake and Japanese tea
  • Fish bowl experience
What's Not Included
  • Hotel pickup/drop-off
  • Extra food and drinks
  • Other personal expenses
  • Transportation fee to meeting point
Additional Information

Join us as we delve into Tsukiji, a bustling marketplace with over 80 years of history, beloved by locals and professional chefs alike. This tour gives you a taste of the regional gastronomic tradition and lets you experience superior culinary offerings.

Begin your adventure at Tsukiji Honganji Temple, from where our adept local guides will lead you to a selection of our much-loved food stores, all selling top tier foods, beverages, and cookware. Take this opportunity to explore both the retailer outlets and the wholesale division, whilst treating yourself to complementary servings (Japanese green tea, Dashi soup, etc.) alongside the offerings listed below.

Revel in the matchless ambiance of a marketplace that remarkably endured the ravages of World War II. Here you will often witness the rare spectacle of direct chit-chats between purchasers and vendors, a scene hard to come by in the vast cityscape of Tokyo. Included in the tour are;

  1. A Japanese omelet
  2. Deep fried fish cake
  3. Fresh Tuna Sashimi
  4. Sake
  5. Sushi at one of the local restaurants.
  • [ Meetup ] 8:15am @The main gate of Tsukiji Honganji-Temple We will leave at start time sharp, so please make sure to be there on time!(We could not wait!) It’s front side of Tsukiji Honganji temple. Please don’t go to back side. (Google maps leads you backside.)
  • Walking shoes are recommended.
  • Minimum drinking age is 20 years. So we offer another drink for under 20.
  • In case of late arrival, the tour cannot be extended.
  • No refunds will be given for cancellations or late arrivals on the day of the tour.
  • Infant meal is not included.
  • Unfortunately, we do not accommodate vegetarian, halal, gluten-free requests, or allergy-related requests.
  • Unfortunately, if you can’t eat fish, you won’t be able to join the tour
Location
Tsukiji Honganji
[ Meetup ] 8:15am @The main gate of Tsukiji Honganji-Temple *We will leave at start time sharp, so please make sure to be there on time! *It's front side of Tsukiji Honganji temple. Please don't go to back side. (Google maps leads you backside.)
Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

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Josh
Mar 31, 2024
Ocean man!! - I happen to have parents who are aging a lot and they have to diet and I am a wild 20 year old who enjoys meat and butter and cream!! My two favorite chefs are Matty Matheson and Gordon Ramsay who put a lot of unhealthy things in their food!! My mom happens to tell me to help them stay on their diet so I always have to cook healthy food!! I am a big fan of roast pork and steak and chicken but they have become very big fish fans!! I am going on this rant because I went here to look at the fish markets!! I went to the new one but wanted to see the OG one!! I got tempura at a food court and then looked around at the fish!! I then walked by the Sumida River and listened to a tune by everyone’s favorite 50 year old white rapper from Detroit featuring the redhead singer!! You may have no idea what song that is but it is called River by Eminem!! It was all very good!!
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Bridget_a
Mar 30, 2024
Great variety - Great tour and variety of food. It was nice to hear the history and specifics about the market. It also ends early enough that you can continue to explore on your own once the tour ends. I used this group for multiple tours while in Tokyo and I enjoyed each one. Very well organized!
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W3187wresthers
Mar 30, 2024
Great experience! - The guide Monami gave us a good overview of the market. We had fun and enjoyed every minute. The guide did a great job at accommodating the kids
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Dankv2131ny
Mar 30, 2024
Food tour - great guide and fantastic time - Our guide, Romy, was excellent. Knowledgeable, polite, good with the teenage kids. It was a very wet and windy day but we still had the best time.
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G4688mzjonathanl
Mar 30, 2024
Excellent tour with excellent guide - Hiro was an excellent guide in navigating the outer market of Tsujiki. Note this does not enter the inner market which moved 5 years ago. Food was excellent and glad to experience a very busy part of the city with a local.
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Deivm2022
Mar 29, 2024
thank you! - fantastic Syun! we had a splendid morning in this tsukiji market. our guide was really entertaining and guided us in the crowded street
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Arthurkc4743pr
Mar 28, 2024
good exspirience - Romy was very kind and had a good route planned out and even though weather was bad she made it a fun exspirience and food was amazing and had hidden gems
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Maureenslater
Mar 28, 2024
Food tour - Akiko was wonderful! We had a very rainy day but we managed to have a wonderful time! The sushi making was wonderful and fun!
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Sara_w
Mar 28, 2024
Delicious and informative - Great guide and good food throughout. We enjoyed the different stalls and parts of Japanese cuisine. Our guide Shawn gave us history and cultural insights.
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Joseph_f
Mar 28, 2024
Don’t miss Tokyo’s Fish Market - The entire experience of this very unique part of Tokyo. Distinguishes Tokyo from other cities of the world. If you are looking to do and experience something unique, do the fish market.
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